Course context for academic year 2015-16

Operations Management: this course is part of the subject "Business Organization" and is taught in the second half of the first year of the degree. This course is intended for students to understand the problems of operations in the company and its relationship with other functional areas and business strategies. It also discusses planning and control tools in the area of operations, and improvement processes of the organization in the context of operations management. This subject is studied after "Fundamentals of Business Economics" and it provides basic knowledge on the administration of organisations. Thus, the discipline, "Operations Management" focuses on the study of one of the business organisations subsystems, operations / production, keeping a relationship with other subjects of business administration in the degree in which other business subsystems are studied and other more specific leadership and management concepts, such as:

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

CG1 :
Capacity to find and analyse information.

CG2 :
Capacity to work in a team.

CG3 :
Capacity for self-learning.

CG4 :
Apply professional criteria based on using technical instruments to analyse problems.

CG5 :
Capacity to make decisions by putting theoretical knowledge into practice.

CG6 :
Obtain important information that is impossible for non-professionals to recognise from the data.

CG7 :
Ethical commitment and social responsibility at work, respecting the environment, being aware of and understanding the importance of respecting Fundamental Rights, Equal Opportunities for Men and Women, Universal Accessibility for the Disabled and respect for the Values of Peaceful Culture and Democratic Values.